Here's an example of a non-news event. Why is it even here? The list makes no sense but to prop up Dr Hill and his racist agenda.

This fool is as much a professor as I am.

His body temp is higher by far than his IQ.

It drives me nuts when he is brought on to O'Reilly for comic relief.

African American Studies?? Way to go Columbia... dumb, dumber, dumbest.

OK, Lamont. Now we get equal time....

Fair and Balanced.

Top of the list: Barack Obama.

15 most over rated Black People:

Barack Obama
Martin Luther King
Jesse Jackson
Al Sharpton
Eric Holder
Michelle Obama
Michael Vick
Vince Young
Mike Tyson
Samuel L. Jackson
Corey Booker
Malcom X
Bill Clinton
any rapper of color...+3

I agree with some of his list.
Bieber, Elvis, Clinton, Palin, Harry/Kate and Tebow.

Reagan, Eminimem (keep it in perspective of rappers,not that he is a great person), Babe Ruth all should be removed from his list.

It need not be seperated by race as I think Obama will make his Black list.

How about listing the 15 most incompetent black people!

Way to go #6, argue stupid racism with stupid racism.

wow-- how did I forget Danny Glover? Hugo Chavez's best buddy?

Another straw man argument. Why would a professed serious comparison compare a R&B singer and a pop star with this country's greatest president?

Another way of saying, "I need to tear down some white folks to divert attention because President Obama's performance in the debate with Mr. Romney defines EPIC FAIL!"

#7 continued..
Harry Belafonte
Danny Glover
Calypso Louis

His list should have been labeled:

"Da 15 honky cracka's dat I hates da Most!"

Let's admit it, "African American Studies" is a code phrase that really means Bash Whitey Studies. Racism is still a problem in America, but it's not coming from white people, institutions, or The Man, it's coming from universities, the NAACP and various community 'organizers' and it is blatant racism against white people.

So much for judging people based on the content of their character. Columbia must be very proud.

Everyone on that list -- even Justin Bieber -- is about 20 steps up on the evolutionary ladder to ''Prof'' Hill...

What a low class, racist idiot!!!

Based on his ''logic'' for including Elvis on his list, every opera singer is ''overrated'' -- since none of them play instruments while they sing, and I doubt any of them wrote the music that they sing. Someone tell Pavorati that he is overrated according to ''Prof'' Hill's ''logic''...

LaMont Hill the infamous professor who once told Juan Williams (filling in for host Bill O'R) go back and sit on the porch. This studied PINO is a clone of the one sitting in the oval office with his feet on the DESK Two p's in a pot PINO=professor in name only

Any major with "Studies" at the end of its name is not a real major. It's excuse to take out student loans and avoid the real world for a few years.

Marc is not an intellect. He is simply provocative, in an antagonistic manner. His list shows nothing very thoughtful or insightful, it was concocted to agitate. And yes, he is racist. After all the history of telling White America it should no longer engage in racism, racist antagonizers like Marc should know better. In fact, this makes his actions worse, as done intentionally to cause harm.

Lamont, you big dummy!

Yes, perfessor, but can you do the hambone?

Number 7 put 0bama first and MLK second. I'd reverse the two. MLK has been made into practically a saint. His biography is revisionist history, the idea being that putting out fiction often enough (as well as building monuments and giving him a national holiday) will make it true. However, the same princple applies to the life and "work" of 0bama.

Even if MLH's list was "The 15 Most Overrated People" it would still only have white names on it because he is as racist as a 1920s KKK Grand Wizard.

#7: Add Marc Lamont Hill to your list.

This makes me think of the movie Lesson 21 (Lezione 21). The premise of the story is a college class where the professor discusses the most overrated works of art and music of all time. In particular, the movie fixates on Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

The movie starts out quite good, but eventually fails miserably. I think one of the reasons it fails is because I have always enjoyed the 9th Symphony, and no amount of chatter is going to make me think I hate something that I like.

And what good is an AA studies professor, other than to fan the flames of racial animosity? He probably looks down his nose at janitors and garbage collectors, but those folks provide necessary services. They would be missed if they disappared. But a AA studies professor....nada.

To quote from the movie "Full Metal Jacket" -- "Thank God for the sickle cell"!

How can the very sensitive Professor Hill continue to accept paychecks from an institution named after the vicious racist Christopher Columbus? He needs to immediately resign in protest from his overpaid sinecure at Columbia University.

Hey, Marc, how about a list of properly rated white people or, more revealing, your idea of underrated whites? Tunnel-visioned, one-trick-pony MLH's opinion carries as much weight as Cornel West's. Thank heaven for "credentials", huh?

If Marc Hill feels that way, he should quit following white people around so he can get their money and go do something on his own.

Marc -- it was our moral authority, our taking up the world wide commission to spread the gospel -- even to cannibals -- and our freedom to achieve excellence that got us to where we are today. "America was great," DeToqueville explained, "because America was good." But we have 2 Americas now. No more white man's burden. Reagan had moral authority. He was the last President to stand for American values. Democrats boo God. Current Republicans take the same dirty money and cry. OTOH Marc, lets be fair and up to date. Everybody is a star.

Hey Mr Hill,

Let's take your racist theory and apply it to the NBA and college professors. We should have equal quotas of NBA players as blacks, whites, asians and hispanics to the American population so everyone gets a fair share and everyone gets a fair shake. With regards to college professors, we must have equal numbers of conservative professors to liberal professors to offset the stupidity taught in our schools by clowns like Mark Hill.

I saw LaMont Hill's name and KNEW that whatever he wrote would be perfect for the Onion.

Racist with a smile, getting money for nothin' from whitey.

And elitist to boot.

I dare him to go to Bed-Stuy, Jamaica, NY, West or North Jacksonville, FL and be the person he is on OReilly. I have a casket waiting.

Another black racist, is this an identity or an excuse?

If Elvis is overrated, so is every rap singer that plays no instrument.

Every black, racist professor named Mark Lamont Hill is overrated and he's attempting to get readers to read his idiotic thoughts in an article and get his FaceTime on TV shows.

The media slut is a RACIST.

this is simply an exercise in someone trying to make a name for himself and get on tv. Mission accomplished. His list doesn't seem very deep for a supposed phd. His 'research' probably took 5 minutes. ... ... next ....

"African American Studies Professor" = Graduated from high school, stayed out of prison and applied for a college teaching job.

Hill's PhD translates to no substance, just "Piled Higher and Deeper"!!!!

African American Studies is Affirmative Action on STEROIDS!!!

Hill should be blacklisted for this.

"...a region that had already been 'discovered' by indigenous non-whites," wrote Hill

The indigenous people were caucasians, professor. Perhaps whatever institution which gave you a degree on the basis of "fairness" and equity should reconsider.

LOL at Joel Osteen.

Q. Why is there no major called Armenian-American Studies?
A. Because Armenians work at real jobs, to become Americans.

Professor Lamont, don't you mean this is a list of 15 people I don't like because they are white.

He didn't have the guts to include Bill O'Reilly as he doesn't want to lose those FNC appearance fees.
This guy is a bigger Obama bootlick than even Juan Williams.

For years blacks wanted equality.
Somebody should publish his list with a side by side match of overrated blacks.
Then wait for the screaming to start.